MSU Professor Lawrence Busch's Extensive Curriculum Vita

Lawrence Busch Curriculum Vita
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VITA
LAWRENCE MICHAEL BUSCH
I. GENERAL INFORMATION
Department of Sociology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1111
USA
Tel. 517-355-3396
FAX: 517-432-2856
*Email:Lbusch@msu.edu
II. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
9/61 to 2/65: Degree Received: B.A. in History,
Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York 11550
Major: History
Minor: Education
6/70 to 8/71: Degree Received: M.S. in Development Sociology,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
Major: Development Sociology
Minor: Organizational Behavior and Social Action
9/72 to 8/74: Degree Received: Ph.D. in Development Sociology,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
Major: Development Sociology
Minors: Economic Development and Planning,
Methods of Social Research, Labor Managed Systems
III. EMPLOYMENT RECORD
1/97 to Present: University Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1111.
Research and teaching appointment. Joint appointment in the College of Social Sciences and the
Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.
2/14 to 5/14: Agropolis Foundation Fellow, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
8/98 to 12/13: Co-Director, Center for the Study of Standards in Society (formerly Institute for
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9/08 to 2/11: Professor of Standards and Society, Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of
Genomics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YD, United Kingdom.
(http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/cesagen/)
Research appointment in a Centre funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
2/01 to 5/04: Director, Partnerships for Food Industry Development – Fruits and Vegetables,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1111.
11/90 to 12/96: Professor, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing,
Michigan 48824-1111.
3/84 to 12/89: Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington,
Kentucky 40546-0091.
Research and teaching appointment. Primary appointment in College of Agriculture with
secondary appointments in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Behavioral
Science, College of Medicine.
7/88 to 6/89: Directeur de Recherches, ORSTOM, Institut Français de Recherche Scientifique
pour le Développement en Coopération, Paris, France (now IRD).
4/79 to 3/84: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington,
Kentucky.
8/74 to 4/79: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington,
Kentucky.
9/72 to 6/74: Teaching Assistant, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York 14850.
8/71 to 8/72: Research Associate, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York 14850.
6/70 to 8/71: Teaching Assistant, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York 14850.
8/68 to 6/70: VISTA Supervisor, Community Action Council, Inc., Box 608, Rose Hill, North
Carolina 28458.
1/67 to 7/68: Peace Corps Volunteer, Lomé, Togo.
2/65 to 11/66: Peace Corps Volunteer, Labé, Guinea.

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IV. COURSES TAUGHT
Classical Sociological Theory
Principles of Sociological Theory
Technology and Social Change
Work and Alienation in American Society
Problems of Development in West Africa
Introductory Rural Sociology
Science, Agriculture, and Development
The Integration of Theory and Research
European Theory in Transition
Human Structures (Undergraduate Honors)
Science and Agricultural Commodity Production
Agricultural Structure and Food Systems
Rural Sociology
Science and Technology (graduate)
Science, Technology and Society (undergraduate)
Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Contemporary Society
V. SELECTED DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED
Sachs, C. 1981. Women in Agricultural Production.
Bonanno, A. 1984. The Persistence of Small Farms: The Case of Southern Italy.
Clearfield, F. 1985. The Trilateral Commission: Exercising its Global Influence.
Dale, C. 1985. From Household Laborers to Millhands: A Study of Women in the Transition to
Capitalism in Antebellum New England.
Marcotte, P. 1987. Farming Systems Research as a Method for Introducing Sorghum in the
Dominican Republic.
Kusha, H. 1989. Social Justice: From the Islamic World-System to the European World
Economy.
Moraga-Rojel, J. 1989. Science, Technology, Socioeconomic and Political Forces in the Shaping
of Chilean Agricultural Research.
Silva, J. de S. 1989. Science and the Changing Nature of the Struggle over Plant Genetic
Resources.
Deo, S. 1990. Dependency and Development in India: A Study of Development Planning in
Historical Perspective.
Tanaka, K. 1997. Negotiating the Uniformity of a Commodity: The Case of the Rapeseed
Subsector in the Peoples' Republic of China.
Skladany, M. 1999. Research and Development in Aquaculture Biotechnology: An Approach
and Interpretation from the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge.
Middendorf, G. 2001. Development Narratives: Weaving Together the Material, the Social and
the Discursive In a Case Study of Panamanian Development Policy
Ransom, Elizabeth. 2003. Setting the Standard: Competing Values in the South African Red
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Siyengo, Andile. 2004. Sweet Oranges, Uncertain Markets, And Bitter Losses: A Study of
Small Scale Citrus Farming in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Mascarenhas, Michael. 2005. Where the Waters Divide: Neoliberalism, Environmental Justice,
and Being Indigenous.
Hatanaka, Maki. 2006. Producing Sustainable Shrimp: Third Party Certification in the Global
South.
Bain, Carmen. 2007. Reconciling Competing Values for ‘Corporate Social Responsibility:’
EurepGAP Standards and the Chilean Export Fruit Sector.
Konefal, Jason. 2007. Saving The Oceans Via The Market: Social Movements in the
Marketplace.
Loconto, Allison. 2010. Sustainabilitea: Shaping Sustainability in Tanzanian Tea Production.
Psarikidou, Aikaterini. 2012. Re-imagining Sustainable Agro-food Futures: Alternative
(Bio)economies in a Knowledge Society Era (co-directed with B. Szerszynski).
Li Xueshi. 2014. The Making of Organic Agriculture in China: Boundaries, Standards, and
Controversies.
Service on more than 60 other Masters and Doctoral Committees.
VI. POST-DOCTORAL AND VISITING SCHOLARS DIRECTED
Edmond Oasa, Ph.D., Political Science, University of Hawaii, 1983-1984.
Michael Hansen, Ph.D., Agroecology, University of Michigan, 1983-1985.
Norberto Muniz, Ph.D., Visiting Fulbright Scholar, University of Vicosa, Brazil, 1985-1986.
Yvon Chatelin, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, ORSTOM, Paris, France, 1986-1988.
Åsa Gornitzka, M.A., Political Science, University of Oslo, 1992.
Ivan Sergio Freire de Souza, Ph.D., Researcher, EMBRAPA, Brasilia, 1995-1996.
Maria João Canadas, Technical University of Lisbon, 1995.
Aurore Josse, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier, 1997.
Brady Deaton, PhD., Research Associate, IFAS, 2002-2004
Dawn Coppin, PhD., Research Associate, IFAS, 2002-2004
John Stone, PhD., Research Associate, IFAS, 2003-2008
Deepa Thiagarajan, Research Associate, IFAS, 2003-2006
Gabriela Pechlaner, Fellow, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), 2007-
2009
Antoine Doré, Researcher, INRA, Toulouse, France, 2015-2016.
VII. OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Organizer, Two-week national faculty/administrator training workshop on "Ethical Aspects of
Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Policy," Lexington, June, 1987.
Facilitator, International Workshop sponsored by the Agency for International Development on
"Agricultural Universities for the Twenty-First Century," Reston, Virginia, October, 1988.

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Co-Organizer, Workshop on Customs Law and the Changing Global Agrifood System,
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Abuja, Nigeria, May, 2002.
VIII. GRANTS
Co-Principal Investigator, “Fostering Standards Literacy in General Education at an R1
Institution,” 2015, $75k.
Co-Principal Investigator, “Toward Standards-Literate Citizens: Curricular Materials and
Educational Strategies,” National Institute for Standards and Technology, 2012, $25k.
Co-Principal Investigator, “Anticipatory Workshop on NanoBioSensors in the Agrifood Sector,”
National Science Foundation, 2010, $50k.
Principal Investigator, “Doctoral Dissertation Research: SustainabiliTea: Shaping Sustainability
in Tanzanian Tea Production,” National Science Foundation, 2009, $13,000.
Co-Principal Investigator, “Public Perceptions of Agrifood Nanotechnologies: Using Extension
to Assess and Link Stakeholder Knowledge with Public Policies,” National Research Initiative,
US Department of Agriculture, 2008, $250k.
Principal Investigator, “Symposium on Certification for Food Safety and Traceability,”
Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, 2007, $25,000.
Principal Investigator, “Workshop on Agrifood Nanotechnology.” French Consulate of Chicago,
2007, $12,000.
Principal Investigator, “Third Party Certification in Food and Agriculture: A Study in Values and
Science,” National Science Foundation, 2004-2007, $250k.
Co-Principal Investigator, “Building Capacity for Social and Ethical Research and Education in
Agrifood Nanotechnology,” National Science Foundation, 2004-2008, $1.72 million.
Principal Investigator, The Relationship of Third Party Certification to Sanitary/ Phytosanitary
Measures and the International Agri-Food Trade,” AID, RAISE SPS IQC, 2004-2005, $104,000.
Co-Principal Investigator, “The Role of Third Party Certification in Food Safety in China,”
Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA, 2005-2007, $45,000.
Principal Investigator, “Study of the University of California – Novartis Agreement,” University
of California, 2002-2004, $225,000.
Principal Investigator, “Societal Dimensions of Food and Agricultural Standards: A Training
Program,” National Science Foundation, 2001-2004, $270k.

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Project Director, “Partnerships in Food Industry Development – Fruits and Vegetables.” US
Agency for International Development, 2000-2004, $2 million. Ghana “buy-in,” 2002-2004,
$2.3 million.
Principal Investigator, “Support for an International Workshop on Markets, Rights and Equity:
Food and Agricultural Standards for a Shrinking World,” German Marshall Foundation, 1999,
$21K.
Principal Investigator, “Support for an International Workshop on Markets, Rights and Equity:
Food and Agricultural Standards for a Shrinking World,” Farm Foundation, 1999, $10K.
Principal Investigator, "Making the Grade: Science and Values in Agricultural Grades and
Standards," National Science Foundation, 1998-2000, $408K.
Principal Investigator, "Engaging Local Community Food System CBOs in Dialogue," W. K.
Kellogg Foundation, 1998, $15K.
Co-Principal Investigator, "Formulating Agricultural Research Policy in a Changing Context:
Experiences of Institutional Change in Latin America." International Service for National
Agricultural Research, 1997-98, $10K.
Principal Investigator, "Networks of Development." National Science Foundation, Professional
Development Fellowship, 1996-1997, $56K.
Principal Investigator, "Doctoral Dissertation Research: Negotiating the Uniformity of a
Commodity--The Case of Rapeseed in the People's Republic of China.," Ethics and Values
Studies, National Science Foundation, 1995-96, $10K.
Principal Investigator, "The New Agricultural Biotechnologies: Strategies for Agricultural
Cooperatives." Cooperative Services, Rural Development Administration, USDA, 1994-1996,
$91K + $15K.
Principal Investigator, "Science in the Negotiation of Quality in Agricultural Subsectors." Ethics
and Values Studies, National Science Foundation, 1992-1996, $161K.
Principal Investigator, "Organization and Structure of National Agricultural Research Systems."
International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1992-1993, $22K.
Principal Investigator, "The Impact of Oilseed Production and Consumption on Biodiversity."
National Science Foundation, Special Competition on Conservation Biology, 1992-93, $60K.
Principal Investigator, "A Strategic Analysis of Technical Change in a Commodity Subsector:
The Case of Canola." Embassy of Canada, 1992, $4.5K.

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Principal Investigator, development of curricula and course materials concerned with "Ethical
Aspects of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Policy," USDA, Office of Higher Education
Programs, 1987-1988, $40K.
Principal Investigator, "Ethics and Values in the Use and Maintenance of Plant Germplasm,"
National Science Foundation and Cooperative State Research Service, 1987-1989, $125K.
Co-Principal Investigator, "Biotechnology and Agricultural Cooperatives," Agricultural
Cooperative Service, USDA, l985-l987, $43K.
Principal Investigator, "The Agricultural Scientific Enterprise," USDA, 1984-1985, $23K.
Principal Investigator, "Ethics and Values in the Agricultural Sciences," National Science
Foundation, 1983-1985, $160K.
Principal Investigator, "Agricultural Research, Food Security, and Equity," Ford Foundation,
1981-1983, $90K.
Principal Investigator, "The Relationship of Agricultural Research and Development to Selected
Socioeconomic Changes in the Farm Sector," National Science Foundation, 1981-1983, $148K.
Principal Investigator, "Agricultural Research and Extension Policy Research Planning Grant,"
Ford Foundation, 1983, $25K.
Co-Principal Investigator, "Sociocultural Constraints in the Production of Grain Sorghum/Pearl
Millet in Less Developed Countries," U.S. Agency for International Development, 1979-1985,
ca. $1.5 million.
Principal Investigator, Mini-grant for Instructional Improvement, University of Kentucky, 1976.
Summer Traineeship, National Science Foundation, Summer, 1971.
IX. HONORS AND AWARDS
Distinguished Rural Sociologist Award, Rural Sociological Society, 2013.
Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University,
2012.
Doctor Honoris Causa, Technical University of Lisbon, 2009.
Elected Member, Académie d’Agriculture de France, 2008-present.
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2006-
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Ralph Smuckler Award for Advancing International Studies, 2004.
Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole, 2001-present.
Jury Member, Slow Food Prize, Bologna and Turin, Italy, October, 2000.
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993-present.
Award for Professional Excellence as exemplified by Quality of Communication, American
Agricultural Economics Association, 1992.
E. A. Southee Travelling Scholarship, University of Western Sydney, 1991.
Award for Excellence in Research, Rural Sociological Society, August, 1990.
Thomas Poe Cooper Award, for outstanding research in agriculture, April, 1988.
Certificate of Appreciation, outstanding service in co-chairing the design and conduct of a
national workshop on "Ethical Aspects of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Policy."
USDA, June 26, 1987.
X. BOOKS
1. Busch, L., ed. 1981. Science and Agricultural Development. Montclair, New Jersey:
Allanheld, Osmun and Co. This volume developed out of a graduate seminar. My contributions
include: "Sources of Influence on Problem Choice in the Agricultural Sciences: The `New
Atlantis' Revisited" (first presented as a paper at the Rural Sociological Society meetings,
Burlington, 1979, with W. B. Lacy), and "The Agricultural Sciences and the Modern World
System" (with Carolyn Sachs).
2. Busch, L. and W. B. Lacy. 1983. Science, Agriculture, and the Politics of Research. Boulder,
Colorado: Westview Press. (Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society.)
3. Busch, L. and W. B. Lacy, eds. 1984. Food Security in the United States. Boulder, Colorado:
Westview Press. My contributions include "What Does Food Security Mean?" and "The Role of
Agricultural Research for Food Security" (both with W. B. Lacy).
4. Busch, L., and W. B. Lacy, eds. l986. The Agricultural Scientific Enterprise, A System in
Transition. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. (Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological
Society.)
5. Busch, L., W. B. Lacy, J. Burkhardt, and L. R. Lacy. 1991. Plants, Power and Profit: Social,
Economic, and Ethical Consequences of the New Biotechnologies. Cambridge, MA and Oxford:
Basil Blackwell.

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6. Friedland, W. H., L. Busch, F. H. Buttel, and A. Rudy, eds. 1991. Toward a New Political
Economy of Agriculture. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
7. Bonanno, A., L. Busch, W. Friedland, L. Gouveia, and E. Mingione, eds. 1994. From
Columbus to Conagra: The Globalization of Agriculture. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.
8. Busch, L.; W. B. Lacy; J. Burkhardt; D. Hemken; J. Moraga-Rojel; J. Souza Silva; and T.
Koponen. 1995. Making Nature, Shaping Culture: Plant Biodiversity in Global Context. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press.
9. Busch, L. 2000. The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State and Market. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine
DeGruyter.
10. Bingen, J. and L. Busch, eds. 2006. Agricultural Standards. Dordrecht: Springer.
My contributions include L. Busch and J. Bingen, “Introduction: A New World of Standards,”
pp. 3-28, M. Salazar, J. Miller, L. Busch, and M. Mascarenhas, “The Indivisibility of Science,
Policy and Ethics: Starlink™ Corn and the Making of Standards,” pp. 111-124, I. S. F. De Sousa
and L. Busch, “Standards and State-Building: The Construction of Soybean Standards in Brazil,”
pp. 125-136, L. Busch, E. Ransom, T. Mckee, G. Middendorf, and J. Chesebro, “Paradoxes Of
Innovation: Standards and Technical Change in the Transformation of the US Soybean
Industry,” pp.137-156, J. Bingen and L. Busch, “Shaping A Policy And Research Agenda,”
pp.245-250.
11. Rudy, A.P.; D. Coppin, J. Konefal, B.T. Shaw, T. Ten Eyck, C. Harris, and L. Busch. 2007.
Universities in the Age of Corporate Science: The UC Berkeley–Novartis Controversy.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
12. Busch, L. Standards: Recipes for Reality. 2011. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Korean
edition, Hanul Publishing, 2015. Chinese editon, Zhijian Publishing House, forthcoming.
13. Busch, L. 2014. Le Marché aux Connaissances: Néolibéralisme, Enseignement et Recherche.
Paris: Editions Quae.
14. Bonanno, A. and L. Busch, eds. 2015. Handbook of the International Political Economy of
Agriculture and Food. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. My contribution is A. Bonanno and L.
Busch, “The International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food: An Introduction,” pp. 1-
15.
15. Busch, L. Real Myths = False Truths: Securing America’s Future. Available free online at
http://www.lawrencebusch.net
16. Busch, L. 2017. Knowledge for Sale: The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming. (English edition of 13 above, with new preface.)

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XI. JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. Francis, J. D., and L. Busch. 1975. "What We Now Know About `I Don't Knows'," Public
Opinion Quarterly, 39:207-218.
2. Busch, L. 1976. "A Tentative Guide to Constructing the Future: Self-Conscious
Millenarianism," Sociological Practice, 1:27-39.
3. Busch, L., and C. Dale. 1978. "The Changing Distribution of Physicians," Socioeconomic
Planning Sciences, 12:167-176.
4. Busch, L. 1978. "The Social Nature of Perception and Knowledge: Two Teaching Aids,"
Teaching Sociology, 5:445-450.
5. Busch, L. 1978. "Understanding Understanding: Two Views of Communication," Rural
Sociology, 43:450-474. (Paper presented at Rural Sociological Society meetings, Madison,
Wisconsin, 1977.)
6. Busch, L. 1978. "Carving Up the Social World: The Impact of Spatial Units on Research
Results," Sociological Focus, 11:289-299.
7. Ames, Glenn C. W., and L. Busch. 1979. "Agricultural and Institutional Development in the
Sahelian Countries of West Africa: A Real Challenge in Technical Cooperation," Agricultural
Administration, 6:199-210.
8. Busch, L. 1979. "Thomas Kuhn and Sociology: A Reappraisal," Sociological Forum, 2:82-92.
(Paper presented at a roundtable discussion, annual meeting of the American Sociological
Association, New York, 1976.)
9. Busch, L. 1980. "Structure and Negotiation in the Agricultural Sciences," Rural Sociology,
45:26-48.
10. Busch, L. 1980. "Ricerca Scientifia in Agricoltura e Sviluppo Rurale/Urbano," Agricoltura E
Lotta Di Classe, 9:54-63. (Paper presented at Ninth World Congress of Sociology, Uppsala,
Sweden, 1978.)
11. Lacy, W. B., K. E. Pigg, and L. Busch. 1980. "Learning Styles in Adult Education: A Study
of County Extension Agents," Adult Education, 30:233-244.
12. Lacy, W. B., K. E. Pigg, and L. Busch. 1980. "Clients, Colleagues, and Colleges: Perceived
Influences on Extension Agents," Rural Sociology, 45:469-482. (Paper presented at the Rural
Sociological Society meetings, Burlington, Vermont.)

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13. Lacy, W. B., and L. Busch. 1982. "Guardians of Science: Professional Journals in the
Agricultural Sciences," Rural Sociology, 47:429-448. (Paper presented at the Rural Sociological
Society meetings, Ithaca, New York.)
14. Busch, L. 1982. "History, Negotiation, and Structure in the Agricultural Sciences," Urban
Life, 11:368-384.
15. Lacy, W. B., and L. Busch. 1983. "Informal Scientific Communication in the Agricultural
Sciences," Information Processing and Management, 19:193-202.
16. Busch, L., W. B. Lacy, and C. Sachs. 1983. "Perceived Criteria for Problem Choice in the
Agricultural Sciences," Social Forces, 62:190-200. (Paper presented at Fifth World Congress of
Rural Sociology, Mexico City.)
17. Busch, L. 1984. "Science, Technology, Agriculture, and Everyday Life," Annual Review of
Rural Sociology and Development, l:289-314. (Paper presented at the Rural Sociological Society
meetings, Lexington, Kentucky.)
18. Busch, L., and W. B. Lacy. 1984. "Sorghum Research and Human Values," Agricultural
Administration, 15:205-222. (Also published in Portuguese as "A Pesquisa Sobre o Sorgo e os
Valores Humanos," Cadernos de Difusão de Tecnologia 7(1-3):79-97.) (Paper presented at the
Tenth World Congress of Sociology, Mexico City.)
19. Swanson, L., and L. Busch. 1985. "A Part-Time Farming Model Reconsidered: A Critique of
a POET Model," Rural Sociology, 50(Fall):427-436.
20. Hansen, M., L. Busch, J. Burkhardt, and W. B. Lacy. l986. "Plant Breeding and the New
Biotechnologies," BioScience, 34(January):29-39.
21. Busch, L., and W. B. Lacy. 1987. "Biotehnologija in Prestrukturiranje Svetovne Ureditve
Hrane," Sodobno Kmetijstvo (Modern Agriculture), 20(7-8):305-308.
22. Burkhardt, J.; L. Busch; and W. B. Lacy. 1988. "The Ethics of Germplasm," Diversity,
13:25-27.
23. Buttel, F. H., and L. Busch. 1988. "The Public Agricultural Research System at the
Crossroads," Agricultural History, 62(2):303-324.
24. Lacy, W. B.; L. R. Lacy; and L. Busch. 1988. "Agricultural Biotechnology Research:
Practices, Consequences, and Policy Recommendations," Agriculture and Human Values, 5(3):
3-14.
25. Lacy, W. B., and L. Busch. 1989. "Biotechnology: Challenge and Opportunity for
Agricultural Cooperatives," Policy Studies Journal, 17(Fall):203-214.

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26. Busch, L.; W. B. Lacy; and A. Bonnano. 1989. "Science, Technology, and the Restructuring
of Agriculture," Sociologia Ruralis, 29(2):118-130. Also published in Spanish as "Ciencia,
Technologia y Reestructuratión de la Agricultura," Agricultura y Sociedad, 53(4):73-103. (Paper
presented at the World Congress of Rural Sociology, Bologna, Italy, 1988).
27. Deo, S.; J. Silva; L. Busch; W. B. Lacy; and N. Mohseni. 1989. "Agricultural Biotechnology
in India and Brazil: Creating New Technological Dependencies," International Journal of
Comparative Sociology, 26(3-4): 217-234.
28. Busch, L. 1989. "Irony, Tragedy, and Temporality in Agricultural Systems, or How Values
and Systems are Related," Agriculture and Human Values, 6(4):4-11. (Presidential Address to
the Society for Agriculture, Food, and Human Values, October, 1989.)
29. Busch, L. 1991. "Risk, Values, and Food Biotechnology," Food Technology, 45(April): 96,
98, 100-101. (Invited paper presented at the annual meetings of the Institute of Food
Technologists, Anaheim, California, June, 1990.)
30. Busch, L. 1991. "Manufacturing Plants: Notes on the Culture of Nature and the Nature of
Culture," International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. I:105-115. Reprinted in
Spanish as "La Fabricación de plantas. Notas sobre la Cultura de la Naturaleza y la Naturaleza de
la Cultura," Agricultura y Sociedad 60(July-September): 119-140.
31. Bawden, R., L. Busch and A. Gagni. 1991. “The Agricultural University for the Twenty-
First Century,” Impact of Science on Society. 164: 353-366. (Paper presented at workshop on
Agricultural Universities for the Twenty-First Century, Reston, Virgina, October, 1988.)
32. Busch, L. 1992. "Metatheories and Better Theories: A Reply to Ruttan," International Journal
of the Sociology of Agriculture and Food. 2: 44-49.
33. Gaillard, J. and L.. Busch. 1993. "French and American Agricultural Science for the Third
World," Science and Public Policy. 20(August): 222-234.
34. Busch, L.; V. Gunter; T. Mentele; M. Tachikawa; and K. Tanaka. 1994. "Socializing Nature:
Technoscience and the Transformation of Rapeseed into Canola," Crop Science. 34:607-614.
35. Juska, A. and L. Busch. 1994. "The Production of Knowledge and the Production of
Commodities: The Case of Rapeseed Technoscience," Rural Sociology. 59(4): 581-597. (Paper
presented at the XIIIth World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld, Germany).
36. Busch, L. 1995. "Eight Reasons Why Patents Should Not be Extended to Plants and
Animals," Biotechnology and Development Monitor. 24 (September):24.
37. Busch, L. and K. Tanaka. 1996. "Rites of Passage: Constructing Quality in a Commodity
Subsector." Science, Technology and Human Values. 21(1): 3-27.

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38. Busch, L. 1996. "Bringing Nature Back In," Centennial Review. 30(6): 491-50. (Keynote
address to the Michigan Sociological Association. Kalmazoo, October, 1994.)
39. Juska, A., L. Busch, and Wu, F.-H. 1996. "Producing Genetic Diversity in Crop Plants: The
Case of Canadian Rapeseed, 1954-199l," Journal of Sustainable Agriculture. 9(4): 5-24.
40. Middendorf, G. and L. Busch. 1997. "Inquiry for the Public Good: Citizen Participation in
Agricultural Research," Agriculture and Human Values. 14(1): 47-57.
41. Juska, A., L. Busch and K. Tanaka. 1997. "The Blackleg Epidemic in Canadian Rapeseed as
a 'Normal Agricultural Accident'." Ecological Applications . 7(4): 1350-1356.
42. Busch, L. and A. Juska. 1997. "Beyond Political Economy: Actor Networks and the
Globalization of Agriculture." Review of International Political Economy, 4(4): 688-708.
43. Sousa, I. S. F. and L. Busch. 1998. "Networks and Agricultural Development: The Case of
Soybean Production and Consumption in Brazil." Rural Sociology. 63(3): 349-371.
44. Middendorf, G., M. Skladany, E. Ransom and L. Busch. 1998. “The New Agricultural
Biotechnologies: The Struggle for Democratic Choice.” Monthly Review. 50(3): 85-96.
(Reprinted in C. M. Counihan, ed., 2002. Food in the USA: A Reader. New York: Routledge.)
45. Busch, L. 1999. “Beyond Politics: Rethinking the Future of Democracy.” Rural Sociology.
64(1): 2-17. (Presidential Address to the annual meetings of the Rural Sociological Society,
Portland, OR, August, 1998.)
46. Tanaka, K., A. Juska and L. Busch. 1999. “Globalization of Agricultural Production and
Research: the Case of the Rapeseed Subsector,” Sociologia Ruralis. 39(1): 54-77.
47. Reardon, T., J-M. Codron, L. Busch, J. Bingen and C. Harris. 1999. “Global change in
agrifood grades and standards: agribusiness strategic responses in developing countries,”
International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. 2(3-4): 421-435.
48. Busch, L. 2000. “The Moral Economy of Grades and Standards,” Journal of Rural Studies,
16:273-283.
49. Busch, L. 2000. “Democracia, Sistema Global de Alimentos e o Futuro da Sociologia
Rural,” Teoria & Sociedade (Brazil). 6(October): 245-259.
50. Codron, J-M., Sterns, P., and L. Busch. 2000. “Questions de Normes Agro-Alimentaires
dans le Contexte de Globalisation,” Cahiers d’Economie et Sociologie Rurales. 55-56: 45-51.
51. Busch, L. 2001. “Témerité Américaine et Prudence Européenne?” La Recherche. 339
(Februrary): 19-23. (Also published in Spanish as “Los Americanos y la Comunidad Europea,”
Mundo Científico 222: 29-34.)

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52. Busch, L. 2001. “Assumptions about Biotechnology and Agriculture.” Detroit College of
Law Journal of International Law. 10 (1): 57-61.
53. Busch, L. 2002. “The Homeletics of Risk,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental
Ethics. 15: 17–29.
54. Sterns, P. A. and L. Busch. 2002. “Standard Setting in the African Horticultural Export
Market: A Bottom-Up or Top-Down Approach? Journal of Economic Issues 36 (2): 527-537.
55. Tanaka, K. and L. Busch. 2003. “Standardization as a Means for Globalizing a Commodity:
The Case of Rapeseed in China.” Rural Sociology. 68(1): 25-45.
56. Yamaguchi, T., C. Harris, and L. Busch. 2003. "Agrifood Biotechnology Discourse in
India,” Science, Technology, and Society 8(1): 47-72.
57. Busch, L. 2003. “Virgil, Vigilance, and Voice,” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental
Ethics 16: 459-477.
58. Busch, L. and C. Bain. 2004. “New! Improved? The Transformation of the Global
Agrifood System.” Rural Sociology. 69(3): 321-346.
59. D. Winickoff, Jasanoff, S., R. Grove-White, L. Busch, and B. Wynne. 2005. “Adjudicating
the GM Food Wars: Science, Risk, and Democracy in World Trade Law.” The Yale Journal of
International Law. 30 (1): 81-123.
60. Hatanaka, M., C. Bain, and L. Busch. 2005. “Third-Party Certification in the Global
Agrifood System,” Food Policy 30: 354–369.
61. Busch, L. 2005. “Commentary on ‘Ever Since Hightower: The Politics of Agricultural
Research Activism in the Molecular Age,’” Agriculture and Human Values 22: 285-288.
62. Mascarenhas, M. and L. Busch. 2006. “Seeds of Change: Intellectual Property Rights,
Genetically Modified Soybeans and Seed Saving in the United States,” Sociologia Ruralis 46 (2),
122–138.
63. Busch, L. 2007. “Comments” [on Stone, ‘Agricultural Deskilling….’], Current
Anthropology 48(1): 87-88.
64. Busch, L. 2007. “Performing the Economy, Performing Science: From Neoclassical to
Supply Chain Models in the Agrifood Sector,” Economy and Society 36 (3): 439-468.
65. Peterson, N., Riley, S., Busch, L., and Liu, J. 2007. “Reconciling Wildlife Management’s
Conflicted Purpose with a Land Community Worldview,” The Journal of Wildlife Management,
71(8): 2499–2506.

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66. Holt, D.; T. Reid, and L. Busch. 2007. “Les Normes dans l’Agriculture Contemporaine: Du
Droit Positif à l’Etat Evaluateur et Auditeur,” Déméter 13: 89-115.
67. Busch, L. 2008. “Nanotechnologies, Food, and Agriculture: Next Big Thing or Flash in the
Pan?” Agriculture and Human Values, 25 (2) :215–218.
68. Hatanaka, M. and L. Busch. 2008. “Third-Party Certification in the Global Agrifood
System: An Objective or Socially Mediated Governance Mechanism?” Sociologia Ruralis 48
(January): 73-91.
69. Qi Yamei, Ye Zhihua, Zhao Weijun, Tian Heshan, Fan Hongping, and L. Busch. 2008.
“Third-Party Certification of Agro-Products in China: A Study of Agro-Product Producers in
Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Qingdao,” Food Protection Trends 28 (11): 765–770.
70. Fan Hongping; Zhihua Ye; Weijun Zhao, Heshan Tian, Qi Yamei, and L.Busch. 2009.
“Agriculture and Food Quality and Safety Certification Agencies in Four Chinese Cities,” Food
Control 20: 627-630.
71. Busch, L. 2009. “What Kind of Agriculture Do We Want? What Might Science Deliver?”
Natures, Sciences, Sociétés, 17 (3):241-247.
72. Loconto, A. and L. Busch. 2010. “Standards, Techno-Economic Networks, and Playing
Fields: Performing the Global Market Economy.” Review of International Political Economy,
17:3 (August) 507–536.
73. Busch, L. 2010. “Can Fairy Tales Come True? The Surprising Story of Neoliberalism and
World Agriculture.” Sociologia Ruralis, 50 (4): 331–351. (Invited keynote presented to the
European Society for Rural Sociology, Vaasa Finland, August, 2009.)
74. Konefal, J. and L. Busch. 2010. “Markets of Multitudes: How Biotechnologies are
Standardising and Differentiating Corn and Soybeans,” Sociologia Ruralis, 50 (4): 409-427.
75. Busch, L. 2011. “The Private Governance of Food: Equitable Exchange or Bizarre Bazaar?”
Agriculture and Human Values, 28: 345-352.
76. Busch, L. 2011. “Standards, Law, and Governance,” Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 25(3):
56–78.
77. Konefal, J. and M. Hatanaka, 2011. “An Interview with Dr. Lawrence Busch,” Journal of
Rural Social Sciences 25(3): 18-33.
78. Busch, L. 2011. “How Animal Welfare Standards Create and Justify Realities,” Animal
Welfare, 20: 21-27.

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79. Deaton, B., L. Busch, W. J. Samuels, and P. B. Thompson. 2011. “A Note on the Economy
of Qualities: Attributing Production Practices to Agricultural Products,” Journal of Rural Social
Sciences, 25(3): 99-110.
80. Busch, L. 2011. “Food Standards: The Cacophony of Governance,” Journal of Experimental
Botany, 62(10): 3247-3250.
81. Thompson, P. B., M. Appleby, L. Busch, L. Kalof, M. Miele, B. F. Norwood, and E. Pajor.
2011. “Values and Public Acceptability Dimensions of Sustainable Egg Production,” Poultry
Science, 90(9): 2097-2109.
82. Fuchs, D., A. Kalfagianni, J. Clapp, and L. Busch, 2011. “Introduction to symposium on
private agrifood governance: values, shortcomings and strategies,” Agriculture and Human
Values, 28(3): 335-344.
83. Busch, L. 2011. “Climate Change: How Debates Over Standards Shape the Biophysical,
Social, Political, and Economic Climate,” International Journal of the Sociology of Agriculture
and Food, 18(3): 167–180.
84. Ten Eyck, T. and L. Busch. 2012. “Justifying the Critique: Following the Lead of Clement
Greenberg and Michael Kimmelman,” Cultural Sociology 6(2): 239-253.
85. Busch, L. and K. Powys-Whyte. 2012. “On the Peculiarity of Standards: A Reply to
Thompson.” Philosophy and Technology 25(2):243-248.
86. MacKenzie, A., C. Waterton, R. Ellis, E. Frow, R. McNally, L. Busch, and B. Wynne.
2013. “Classifying, Constructing and Identifying Life: Standards as Transformations of ‘The
Biological,’ Science, Technology and Human Values 38(5): 701-722.
87. Eaton, W. M., S. P. Gasteyer, and L. Busch. 2014. "Bioenergy Futures: Framing
Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Local Places." Rural Sociology 79(2): 227-256.
88. Busch, L. 2014. “Governance in the age of global markets: challenges, limits, and
consequences,” Agriculture and Human Values, 31: 513-523.
89. Busch, L. 2014. “A Dozen Ways to Get Lost in Translation: Inherent Challenges in Large-
Scale Data Sets, International Journal of Communication, 8:1727-1744.
90. Busch, L. 2015. “Individual Choice and Social Values: Choice in the Agrifood Sector,”
Journal of Consumer Culture, forthcoming.
91. Thompson, P. B., L. Busch and J. V. Stone. 2015. “Standards Education in The Liberal Arts:
Curricular Materials and Educational Strategies,” Standards Engineering, 67 (4):12-15.

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92. Hatanaka, M, and L. Busch. 2015. “How Standards Make Food and Agriculture Global,”
Academia (Japan) 152: 3-15.
93. Busch, L. 2015. “Herbert Hoover and the Construction of Modernity,” Journal of Innovation
Economics and Management, forthcoming.
XII. BOOK CHAPTERS
1. Coughenour, C. M., and L. Busch. 1978. "Alternative Futures for Rural America: The Cloudy
Crystal Ball." Pp. 211-228 in Thomas R. Ford, ed., Rural USA: Persistence and Change. Ames:
Iowa State University Press.
2. Lacy, W. B., and L. Busch. 1982. "The Institutional and Professional Context for Rural
Sociology." Pp. 404-413 in Don A. Dillman and Daryl Hobbs, eds., Rural Society in the U.S.:
Issues for the 1980s. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
3. Lacy, W. B., and L. Busch. 1982. "Problem Choice in Agricultural Research: Scientists'
Initiatives." Pp. 51-66 in M. E. Russell, ed., Enabling Interdisciplinary Research: Perspectives
from Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics. Minneapolis: Minnesota Agricultural
Experiment Station.
4. Busch, L., and W. B. Lacy. 1982. "Research Systems." Pp. 689-97 in Sorghum in the 80s.
Hyderabad, India: ICRISAT. (Paper presented at Symposium on Sorghum in the 80s, Hyderabad,
India, 1982.)
5. Busch, L. 1986. "La Construction Sociale du Milieu Naturel." Pp. 55-69 in Yvon Chatelin and
Gerard Riou, eds., Milieux et Paysages: Essai Sur Diverses Modalités de Connaissance. Paris:
Masson. (Invited paper presented at a seminar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris, 1984.)
6. Hardy, R., K. Farrell, L. Busch, and R. Krasnow. 1986. "Government/Industry/University
Relations." Pp. 278-285 in M. Gibbs and C. Carlson, eds., Crop Productivity--Research
Imperatives Revisited. International Conference held at Harbor Springs, Michigan, and Airlie
House, Virginia.
7. Burkhardt, J., L. Busch, W. Lacy, and M. Hansen. 1986. "Biotechnology and Food: A Social
Appraisal." Pp. 575-600 in Dietrich Knorr, ed., Impact of Biotechnology on Food Production and
Processing. New York: Marcel Dekker.
8. Busch, L. 1988. "Can Agronomy Feed the World? Agricultural Research Policy and World
Hunger." Pp. 113-124 in Philip Ehrensaft and Fred Knelman, eds. The Right to Food:
Technology, Policy, and World Agriculture. Montreal: Canadian Associates of Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev. (Invited paper presented at the International Conference on The Right
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9. Lacy, W. B., and L. Busch. 1988. "The Changing Division of Labor Between the University
and Industry: The Case of Agricultural Biotechnology." Pp. 21-50 in Joseph J. Molnar and Henry
Kinnucan, eds., Biotechnology and the New Agricultural Revolution. Boulder, Colorado: AAAS
and Westview Press.
10. Busch, L. 1988. "L'Evaluation des Organismes de Recherche Agricole Dans les Pays en Voie
de Développement." Pp. 573-598 in Jacques Gaillard, ed., Politique, Programmation, Gestion de
la Recherche pour le Développement. Paris: Institut International d'Administration Publique.
11. Busch, L. and W. B. Lacy. 1988. "Biotechnology: Its Potential Impact on Interrelationships
Among Agriculture, Industry, and Society." Pp. 75-105 in Biotechnology and the Food Supply:
Proceedings of a Symposium. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences. (Invited paper
presented to the Food and Nutrition Board, National Academy of Sciences, December, 1986.)
12. Busch, L. and W. B. Lacy. 1989. "Biotechnology and the Restructuring of the World Food
Order." Pp. 3-26 in A. Bonanno, ed. Sociology of Agriculture: Technology, Labour,
Development and Social Classes in International Perspective. New Delhi: Concept Publishing
Company. (Paper presented at the XI World Congress of Sociology, New Delhi, August,
1986.)
13. Busch, L. 1989. "Social Implications of Agricultural Research." Pp. 42-57 in The Next
Century: Proceedings of the Hatch Centennial Symposium. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Agricultural Experiment Station. (Invited paper presented at the Centennial Symposium, Ithaca,
NY, May, 1987.)
14. Lacy, W. B., L. Busch, and P. Marcotte. 1989. "Agricultural Research in Sudan: The
Perspective of INTSORMIL Scientists." Pp. 74-85 in Constance M. McCorkle, ed., The Social
Sciences in International Agricultural Research. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
15. Busch, L., W. B. Lacy, and J. Burkhardt. 1989. "Culture and Care: Ethical and Policy
Dimensions of Germplasm Conservation." Pp. 43-62 in L. Knutson and A. K. Stoner, eds., Biotic
Diversity and Germplasm Conservation: Global Imperatives. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers. (Invited paper presented at Beltsville Symposium XIII, Beltsville Agricultural
Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland, May, 1988.)
16. Lacy, W. B., L. Busch, and W. Cole. 1990. "Biotechnology: Challenge and Opportunity for
Agricultural Cooperatives." Pp. 69-82 in David J. Webber, ed., Biotechnology, Agriculture, and
Public Policy. New Haven: Greenwood Press. (Expanded version of a paper published in Policy
Studies Journal.)
17. Busch. L. 1990. "How to Study Agricultural Commodity Chains: A Methodological
Proposal." Pp. 13-24 in Michel Griffon, ed. Economie des Filières en Régions Chaudes:
Formation des Prix et Echanges Agricoles. Paris: CIRAD. (Invited paper presented at the Xème
Séminaire d'Economie et Sociologie, Montpellier, France, September, 1989.)

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18. Busch, L. 1990. "The Social Impact of Biotechnology on Farming and Food Production." Pp.
191-203 in June F. MacDonald, ed. Agricultural Biotechnology, Food Safety and Nutritional
Quality for the Consumer. Ithaca, NY: National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, Report 2.
(Invited paper presented at the second annual NABC meeting, Ithaca, NY, June, 1990.)
19. Lacy, W. B.; L. Busch; and L. R. Lacy. 1991. "Public Perceptions of Agricultural
Biotechnology." Pp. 139-161 in Bill R. Baumgardt and Marshall A. Martin, eds. Agricultural
Biotechnology: Issues and Choices. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Agricultural
Experiment Station.
20. Busch, L. 1991. "Waking the Owl of Minerva: Constructing a Future for Rural America." Pp.
251-266 in Kenneth E. Pigg, ed. The Future of Rural America: Anticipating Policies for
Constructive Change. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
21. Lacy, W. B. and L. Busch. 1991. "The Fourth Criterion: Social and Economic Impacts of
Agricultural Biotechnology." Pp. 153-168 in June F. MacDonald, ed. Agricultural Biotechnology
at the Crossroads: Biological, Social, and Institutional Concerns. Ithaca, NY: National
Agricultural Biotechnology Council. (Invited paper presented at third annual NABC meeting,
Davis, California, June, 1991).
22. Busch, L. 1992. "Socioeconomic Implications of Biotechnology for Developing Countries,"
Pp. 91-101 in Proceedings of a Workshop on Social Sciences and the CRSPs, Lexington, KY,
June.
23. Lacy, W. B.; L. R. Lacy; and L. Busch. 1992. "Emerging Trends, Consequences, and Policy
Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology." Pp. 3-32 in Milton C. Hallberg, ed., Bovine Somatotropin
and Emerging Issues: An Assessment. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
24. Busch, L. 1993. "Agricultural Research in a Time of Change." Pp. 23-35 in Robert D.
Weaver, ed. U. S. Agricultural Research: Strategic Challenges and Options. Bethesda, MD:
Agricultural Research Institute.
25. Busch, L. 1993. "Ethical and Social Issues of Protection" Pp. 119-123 in Intellectual Property
Rights: Protection of Plant Materials. Madison, WI: American Society of Agronomy. (Invited
paper presented at a symposium on Intellectual Property Rights: Protection of Plant Materials,
Washington, DC, January, 1993.)
26. Busch, L. and V. Gunter. 1995. "Is the Third World Necessary Anymore? Biotechnology,
Robotics, and the End of the Cold War." Volume 1, pp. 41-61 in Proceedings, Twentieth Century
Science Beyond the Metropolis. Paris: UNESCO. (Invited plenary paper presented at a UNESCO
symposium, Paris, November, 1994.)
27. Busch, L. 1997. "Biotechnology and Agricultural Productivity: Changing the Rules of the
Game?" Pp. 241-257 in A. Bhaduri and R. Skarstein, eds. Economic Development and
Agricultural Productivity. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

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28. Busch, L. and G. Middendorf. 1997. "Technology Policy in a Rapidly Changing World." Pp.
205-219 in W. Lockeretz, ed., Visions of American Agriculture. Ames: Iowa State University
Press.
29. Ransom, E., L. Busch and G. Middendorf. 1998. "Can Cooperatives Survive the Privatization
of Biotechnology in U.S. Agriculture?" Pp. 75-94 in Steven A. Wolf, ed., Privatization of
Information and Agricultural Industrialization. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
30. Busch, L., K. Tanaka, and V. Gunter. 2000. "Who Cares if the Rat Dies? Rodents, Risks
and Humans in the Science of Food Safety." Pp. 108-119 in S. Kroll-Smith, P. Brown, and V.
Gunter (eds.), Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine. New York: New
York University Press.
31. Middendorf, G., M. Skladany, E. Ransom, and L. Busch. 2000. “New Agricultural
Biotechnologies: The Struggle for Democratic Choice.” Pp. 107-123 in F. Magdoff, J. B. Foster
and F. H. Buttel (eds.), Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the
Environment. New York: Monthly Review Press. (Enlarged version of paper in Monthly
Review.)
32. Busch, L. 2002. “The Implications of Global Standards for National Agricultural Research.”
Pp. 171-184 in D. Bigman (ed.), Globalization and the Developing Countries: Emerging
Strategies for Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation. London: CABI Publishing.
33. Busch, L. 2002. “Agricultural Sciences and Technology,” Pp. 333-337 in N. J. Smelser and
Paul B. Baltes, eds. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Oxford:
Pergamon Press.
33. Middendorf, G., E. Ransom, and L. Busch. 2002. “Current Issues in Agricultural Science and
Technology Policy.” In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. Oxford, UK: UNESCO and
EOLSS Publishers.
34. Busch, L. 2002. “Agribusiness and Market Linkages.” Pp. 19-20 in H. A. Freeman, D. D.
Rohrbach, and C. Ackello-Ogutu, eds. Targeting Agricultural Research for Development in the
Semi-Arid Tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa. Nairobi: International Crops Research Institute for
the Semi-Arid Tropics.
35. Busch, L. 2003. “Klasser og Standarder I den Sosiale Konstruksjonen av Trygg Mat.” Pp.
219-238 in Marit S. Haugen and Egil Petter Stræte, eds. Ut I Verden Og Inn I Bygda: Festskrift
til Reidar Almås. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag.
36. Busch, L. 2003. “Democracy: The Missing Element in the Market Celebration.” Pp. 23-34 in
Michael Bell, ed., Walking Towards Justice: Democratization in Rural Life (Research in Rural
Sociology and Development, Volume 9). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

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37. Busch, L. 2004. “Lessons Unlearned: How Biotechnology is Changing Society.” Pp. 27-38
in Biotechnology: Science and Society at a Crossroad. Ithaca, NY: National Agricultural
Biotechnology Council.
38. Busch, L. 2004. “The Social Construction of Food Safety.” Pp. 163-178 in M. E. Lien and
B. Nerlich, eds. (2004) The Politics of Food. Oxford: Berg. (Revised reprint of 35 above.)
39. Busch, L. and J. Bingen. 2005. “Standards and Standardization,” in Beckert, J. and M.
Zafirovski, eds., International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology. Boston: Routledge.
40. Bain, C., B. Deaton, and L. Busch. 2005. “Reshaping the Agri-Food System: The Role of
Standards, Standard Makers, and Third-Party Certifiers,” Pp. 71-83 in V. Higgins and G.
Lawrence, eds. Agricultural Governance. Boston: Routledge.
41. Bain, C. and L. Busch, 2005. “The Limits of Audits,” Pp. 141-145 in Hide or Confide,
Gertjan Hofsteade, ed. Amsterdam: Reed Business Information.
42. Busch, L. 2005. “Agricultural Sciences,” Pp. 2-8 in Science, Technology, and Society: An
Encyclopedia, Sal Restivo, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
43. Hatanaka, M., C. Bain, and L. Busch, 2006. “Differentiated Standardization, Standardized
Differentiation: The Complexity of the Global Agrifood System,” Pp 39-68 in T. Marsden and J.
Murdoch, eds., Between The Local And The Global: Confronting Complexity In The
Contemporary Food Sector. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
44. Konefal, J., C. Bain, M. Mascarenhas and L. Busch, 2007. “Supermarkets and Supply
Chains in North America,” Pp. 270-290 in G. Lawrence and D. Burch, eds., Supermarkets and
Agri-food Supply Chains: Transformations in the Production and Consumption of Foods.
London: Edward Elgar.
45. Busch, L. “Commentary on Agricultural Biotechnology.” 2007. Pp. 202-206 in Charles
McManis, ed., Biodiversity and the Law: Intellectual Property, Biotechnology & Traditional
Knowledge. London: Earthscan.
46. Busch, L. and J. Lloyd. 2008. “What Can Nanotechnology Learn from Biotechnology?” Pp.
261-276 in Paul Thompson and Kenneth David, eds., What Can Nano Learn from Bio? New
York: Academic Press.
47. Busch, L. 2008. “Agricultural Intensification and the Environment.” Pp. 149-155 in P.
Thompson, ed., The Ethics of Intensification. Heidelberg: Springer.
48. Busch, L. 2008. “Science, Standards, and Safe Food: Challenges and Opportunities.” Pp. 13-
24 in Singh, S. P., Julie Funk, S. C. Tripathi, and Nanda Joshi, eds., Food Safety, Quality
Assurance and Global Trade: Concerns and Strategies. Lucknow, India: International Book

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Distributing Company. (Paper presented at a conference of this name at G.B. Pant University of
Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India, November 2008.)
49. Busch, L, A. Loconto, and X. Li. 2008. “New Technologies, Standards, and Local Food
Resources.” Pp. 163-181 in Proceedings of the Third Afrasian International Symposium.
Resources Under Stress: Sustainability of the Local Community in Asia and Africa, Y.
Kawamura, H. Nakamura, and S. Ishizaka, eds. Kyoto: Afrasian Centre for Peace and
Development Studies, Ryukoku University. (Invited paper presented in Kyoto, Japan, February
2008).
50. Loconto, A., L. Busch, and J. Stone. 2012. “Tripartite Standards Regime,” Vol. 4, pp. 2044-
2051 in Encyclopedia of Globalization. G. Ritzer, ed. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
51. Busch, L. 2011. “Quasi-States? The Unexpected Rise of Private Food Law,” in Private Food
Law: Governing food chains through contract law, self-regulation, private standards, audits and
certification schemes, Bernd van der Meulen, ed. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic
Publishers, 51-73.
52. Busch, L. 2012. "Standards Governing Agricultural Innovation. Where Do We Come From?
Where Should We Be Going?" Pp. 35-53 in Renewing Innovation Systems in Agriculture and
Food: How to go towards more sustainability?, edited by E. Coudel, H. Devautour, C. T.
Soulard, G. Faure, and B. Hubert. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
53. Busch, L. 2012. "Normes gouvernant l’innovation agricole." Pp. 19-39 in Apprendre à
innover dans un monde incertain: Concevoir les futurs de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation, edited
by E. Coudel, H. Devautour, C. T. Soulard, G. Faure, and B. Hubert. Paris: Editions Quae.
(Translation of chapter 52, above.)
54. Konefal. J. and L. Busch. 2014. “Standardised and Differentiated: Biotechnologies and
Identity Preservation in Maize and Soybeans.” Pp. 169-186 in A. de Raymond and F. Goulet,
eds., Sociologie des Grandes Cultures : Au Cœur du Modèle Industriel Agricole. Paris : Editions
Quae. (Revised and updated version of article 74 above.)
55. Busch, L. 2014. “How Neoliberal Myths Endanger Democracy and Open New Avenues for
Democratic Action.” In S. Wolf and A. Bonanno, eds. Pp. 32-51 in The Neoliberal Regime in the
Agri-Food Sector: Crisis, Resilience and Restructuring. Boston: Routledge.
56. Whyte, K. P., M. List, J. V. Stone, D. Grooms, S. Gasteyer, P. B. Thompson, L. Busch, D.
Buskirk, E. Giorda, and H. Bouri. 2014. “Uberveillance, Standards, and Anticipation: A Case
Study on Nanobiosensors in U.S. Cattle.” Pp. 251-269 in M. G. Michael, and K. Michael, eds.
Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies.
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57. Busch, L. 2015. “Standards and Their Problems,” forthcoming in M. Miele, V.Higgins, H.
Bjørkhaug and M. Truninger, eds. Transforming the Rural: Global Processes and Local Futures.
Bingley, UK: Emerald Books.
58. Busch, L. and D. Stuart. 2015. “Agricultural Sciences and Technology,” pp. 471-476 in J. D.
Wright, ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier,
2nd
edition, volume 1.
59. Busch, L. 2016. “La Nouvelle Autocracie Agroalimentaire,” forthcoming in G. Allaire et B.
Daviron, eds. Transformations et Transitions dans l’Agriculture et l’Agro-alimentaire. Paris :
Editions Quae.
XIII. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1. Busch, L. 1971. Marabouts, Militants and Money: A Comparison of Rates of Development in
Three West African Nations. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, Master's thesis, December.
2. Francis, J. and L. Busch. 1973. Sea-Related Industries in New York State: Industry and
Manpower Projections. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Department of Rural Sociology.
3. Francis, J. and L. Busch. 1973. "New York State's Commerical Fisheries: Industry and
Manpower Projections." Social Sciences. Ithaca, NY: State College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences Bulletin No. 28.
4. Francis, J. and L. Busch. 1973. "Water Recreational Activities in New York State and the
Effect on Associated Industries," Social Sciences. Ithaca, NY: State College of Agriculture and
Life Sciences Bulletin No. 31.
5. Francis, J. and L. Busch. 1973. "Fulton and South: Industry and Manpower Projections in the
Seafood Wholesaling and Processing Industries," Social Sciences. Ithaca, NY: State College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences Bulletin No. 33.
6. Busch, L. 1973. Guinea, Ivory Coast and Senegal: A Bibliography on Development.
Monticello, IL: Council of Planning Librarians, Exchange Bibliography No. 427.
7. Busch, L. 1974. Macrosocial Change in Historical Perspective: An Analysis of Epochs. Ithaca,
New York: Cornell University, Ph.D. dissertation, August.
8. Busch, L., and Prentice Harvey. 1975. Where Kentuckians Seek Hospital Services. Lexington:
University of Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, RS-41.
9. Busch, L. 1976. Where Have All the Doctors Gone? Changes in the Geographic Location of
Physicians and Hospital Beds in Kentucky, 1949-72. Lexington: University of Kentucky
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10. Busch, L. and C. Sachs. 1977. Mortality in Kentucky, 1950-75. Lexington: University of
Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, RS-53.
11. Busch, L., and C. Sachs. 1977. The Social and Economic Organization of the Agricultural
Sciences: A Preliminary Bibliography. Lexington: University of Kentucky Agricultural
Experiment Station, RS-58.
12. Busch, L. 1978. "Testimony," Rural Research in USDA, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Senate,
Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation, Committee on Agriculture,
Nutrition, and Forestry, May.
13. Perry, C. S., C. M. Coughenour, and L. Busch. 1980. "Should Rural Sociology Be
Expanded?" Newsline 8(January): 18-25.
14. Busch, L., P. M. Monk, and C. M. Straus. 1980. Patterns of Industrial Growth and
Employment in Kentucky, 1959-1976. Lexington: University of Kentucky Agricultural
15. Busch, L., W. B. Lacy, and C. Sachs. 1980. Research Policy and Process in the Agricultural
Sciences: Some Results from a National Study. Lexington: University of Kentucky Agricultural
16. Busch, L., and N. Welt. 1982. Agricultural Research Organization and Policy: A
Bibliography. Lexington: University of Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, RS-70.
17. Busch, L., and W. B. Lacy. 1983. "Information Flows in Research and Extension," The Rural
Sociologist3:92-97. (Paper presented at the INTSORMIL principal investigators meeting,
Phoenix, Arizona, January.)
18. Lacy, W. B., L. Busch, and P. Marcotte. 1983. Agricultural Research in Sudan: A Report to
the Sudan Agricultural Research Corporation. Lexington: University of Kentucky Agricultural
Experiment Station.
19. Busch, L. 1984. "Testimony." Washington, D.C.: U.S. House of Representatives,
Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture, June.
20. Busch, L., J. L. Silver, W. B. Lacy, C. S. Perry, M. Lancelle, S. Deo. 1984. The Relationship
of Public Agricultural R&D to Selected Changes in the Farm Sector: A Report to the National
Science Foundation. Lexington: University of Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station.
21. Busch, L. 1984. "Le Monde Rurale et les Politiques de la Recherche Agronomique." Pp. 95-
100 in Politiques et Pratiques Scientifiques. Paris: ORSTOM. (Paper presented at a special
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22. Lacy, W. B., and L. Busch. 1986. "Food Security in the United States: Myth or Reality?" Pp.
222-233 in New Dimensions in Rural Policy: Building Upon our Heritage. Washington, D.C.:
Joint Economic Committee of the Congress of the United States, June.
23. Eriksen, J. H., L. Busch, J. W. King, R. Poirier. 1987. The Hassan II Institute of Agriculture
and Veterinary Medicine in Morocco: Institutional Development and International Partnership.
Washington, D.C.: U. S. Agency for International Development, Project Impact Evaluation
Report No. 65.
24. Lacy, W. B. and L. Busch, eds. 1988. Biotechnology and Agricultural Cooperatives:
Opportunities and Challenges. Lexington: Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station.
25. Busch, L. 1988. Universities for Development: Report of the Joint Indo-U.S. Impact
Evaluation of the Indian Agricultural Universities. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Agency for
International Development, Project Impact Evaluation Report No. 68.
26. Busch, L. 1991. "Ethical Aspects of the New Agricultural Biotechnologies." Pp. 33-47 in
Marijane R. Davis and Thomas A. Langford, eds. Quality in Graduate Education. Proceedings of
the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools. Lubbock: Texas
Tech University. (Invited paper presented at the annual meetings of the Conference of Southern
Graduate Schools, Norfolk, Virginia, February, 1991.)
27. Busch, L. 1991. "Testimony," Pp. 65-77 in Commercialization of Biotechnology. Hearing
before the Subcommittee on Technology and Competitiveness of the Committee on Science,
Space, and Technology, US House of Representatives. Washington, DC: USGPO, June.
28. Kopchick, J. and L. Busch. 1992. "Workshop Report." Pp. 115-118 in J. F. MacDonald, ed.,
Animal Biotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges. Ithaca, NY: National Agricultural
Biotechnology Council.
29. Busch, L. 1993. Emerging Issues in Technological Change and Technology Assessment in
Agriculture. Madison: Agricultural Technology and Family Farm Institute, paper no. 1.
30. Busch, L. and R. J. Bingen. 1993. Expanding the Indicator Series to Include Management
and Policy Issues. The Hague: ISNAR, Discussion Paper 93-21.
31. Busch, L. and R. J. Bingen. 1993. Organization and Structure of National Agricultural
Research: A Report to the International Service for National Agricultural Research. The Hague:
ISNAR, Discussion Paper 93-20.
32. Busch, L. and R. J. Bingen. 1994. Restructuring Agricultural Research: Some Lessons From
Experience. The Hague: ISNAR, Briefing Paper 13.
33. Ransom, E., L. Busch and G. Middendorf. 1996. "Can Farm Co-ops Survive Biotechnology
Privatization?" Cooperative Action (Michigan Alliance of Cooperatives) (Winter):6-8.

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34. Ransom, E., G. Middendorf, L. Busch. 1996. "Biotechnology and Agricultural Cooperatives:
Implications of the New Plant Biotechnologies," Rural Cooperatives (USDA) 63(2):8-10.
35. Busch, L. 1996. "Response," Research Integrity (Michigan State University). 1(1):11.
36. Ransom, E., G. Middendorf and L. Busch. 1996. "Biotechnology and Ag Co-ops: The
Implications of the New Animal Biotechnologies," Rural Cooperatives (USDA) 63(3): 15-17.
37. Middendorf, G., E. Ransom and L. Busch. 1996. "Biotechnology and Ag Co-ops:
Implications of the New Food Biotechnologies," Rural Cooperatives (USDA) 63(3): 18-22.
38. Ransom, E., G. Middendorf and L. Busch. 1997. Biotechnology and Agricultural
Cooperatives: Choices and Challenges for Managers and Members. East Lansing: Michigan
Agricultural Experiment Station Research Report 552.
39. Middendorf, Gerad and Lawrence Busch. 1998. Agricultural Research Policy in a Changing
Context: Institutional Change at the Panamanian Agricultural Research Institute. Discussion
Paper No 98-11 (November 1998) of the International Service for National Agricultural
Research (ISNAR), The Hague.
40. Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards. 2000. Markets, Rights and Equity: Food and
Agricultural Standards in a Shrinking World. East Lansing, MI: IFAS.
41. Ransom, E., Busch, L., and T. McKee. 2000. Soybeans: Major Trends and Opportunities for
Farmers and Processors. East Lansing: Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, Research
Report 571.
42. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2001. Ethical Issues in Food and
Agriculture. Rome: FAO.
43. Salazar, M. and L. Busch. 2001. Standards and Strategies in the Michigan Potato Industry.
East Lansing: Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, Research Report 576.
44. Busch, L. and A. Rudy. 2001. “Recognize Reality of Harsh World,” Lansing State Journal.
September 13, p. 12A.
45. Busch, L. 2001. “Theories of Development” [Review Essay]. Research in the History of
Economic Thought and Methodology, 20-A, p. 271–277.
46. Busch, L. 2002. “Agrifood Ethics in an Age of Globalisation.” Philosophy Today 15(39): 1-
4.

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47. National Research Council, 2003. Frontiers in Agricultural Research: Food, Health,
Environment, Communities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. (Drafting
Subcommittee member).
48. Bain, C. and L. Busch, 2004. Standards and Strategies in the Michigan Blueberry Industry.
East Lansing, MI: Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, Research Report 585.
49. Busch, L.; Grove-White, R.; Jasanoff, S., Winickoff, D. and Wynne, B. 2004. Amicus
Curiae Brief Submitted to the Dispute Settlement Panel of the World Trade Organization in the
Case of EC: Measures Affecting The Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products. April 30.
50. Busch, L.; Allison, R.; Harris, C.; Rudy, A.; Shaw, B.; Ten Eyck, T.; Coppin, D.; Konefal, J.;
Oliver, C. 2004. External Review of the Collaborative Research Agreement between Novartis
Agricultural Discovery Institute, Inc. and the Regents of the University of California. East
Lansing: Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards, Michigan State University, July 13.
51. L. Busch, D. Thiagarajan, M. Hatanaka, C. Bain, L. G. Flores, and M. Frahm. 2005. The
Relationship Of Third-Party Certification (TPC) to Sanitary/Phytosanitary (SPS)
Measures and the International Agri-Food Trade: Final Report, Raise SPS Global Analytical
Report #9. Bethesda, MD: Development Alternatives, Inc.
52. Konefal, J. and L. Busch. (2006) "Survey finds standards, testing, IP, and certification critical
for non-GMO production," Non-GMO Report 6 (October): 6-8.
XIV. SELECTED INVITED PAPERS
"Decision Influences on Agricultural Scientists." Invited paper presented at the meetings of the
Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy, Lexington, 1980.
"A Sociological and Functional Profile of Agricultural Scientists." Invited paper presented at the
meetings of the Northeast Regional Experiment Station Directors Association, New Brunswick,
NJ, 1980.
"How Scientists Work: Problem Choice in the Agricultural Sciences." Invited paper presented at
the Farming Systems Research Seminar Series, Kansas State University, October, 1981.
"The Sociology and Politics of Agricultural Research." Invited paper presented at the
Agricultural Research Policy Seminar, St. Paul, Minnesota, April, l985; April, 1984; and June,
1983.
"The Socioeconomic Impact of Plant Breeding." Invited paper presented at the annual meetings
of the Agriculture Institute of Canada, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, l985.
"Agricultural Research: An Instrumental Approach." Invited paper presented at the Agriculture
and the Liberal Arts Faculty Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, l985.

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"Food Security: What Does it Mean for Tanzania?" Invited paper presented at a UNICEF
Workshop on Food Security, Mikumi, Tanzania, l985.
"Evaluating Agricultural Research in Less Developed Countries." Invited paper presented at a
special seminar, USAID, Washington, D.C., July, 1985.
"L'Evaluation des Organismes de Recherche Agricole dans les Pays en Voie de Développement."
Invited paper presented at a seminar at the Institut International d'Administration Public, Paris,
October, 1986.
"Public Agricultural Research at the Crossroads." Invited paper presented as part of the Biology
and Society seminar series, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, April, 1987.
"The Cooperative Role in the Biotechnology Revolution." Invited paper presented at the Second
International Symposium: Cooperative Chief Executive Officers, Williamsburg, Virginia, May,
1987.
"Biotechnology and the Third World." Invited paper presented as part of the Food, Agriculture,
and Society Project guest speaker series, Pennsylvania State University, State College,
Pennsylvania, September, 1987.
"The Politics of Agricultural Research." Invited paper presented as part of the GTE lecture
series, California Polytechnical State University, San Luis Obispo, April, 1988.
"La Recherche sur la Recherche en Agriculture." Invited paper presented at the Ecole des Mines,
Paris, February, 1989.
"Higher Agricultural Education in Asia and the Near East." Invited paper presented at the Asia
and Near East Bureau (AID) Agriculture and Rural Development Officers' Conference, Rabat,
Morocco, February, 1989.
"State and Civil Society in Agricultural Science and Technology." Invited paper presented as
part of the Rural Studies Research Centre Seminar Series, University College, London, March,
1989.
"Improving Agricultural Universities in Developing Nations." Invited paper presented at the
International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), The Hague, March, 1989.
"Biotechnology and the Future of World Agriculture." Invited paper presented to the Graduate
School of Technical Engineers, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, April, 1989.
"Commodity Production in American Agriculture." Invited paper presented to the Society of
Agricultural Engineers, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, April, 1989.

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"Les Universités Agricoles et le Développement." Invited paper presented at a seminar on
Pratiques et Politiques Scientifiques, Bondy, France, May, 1989.
"Culture et Agriculture." Invited paper presented at the Colloquium on Patrimoine Génétique et
Droits de l'Humanité, Paris, France, October, 1989.
"Should we try to limit the development of new technologies that might prove economically and
socially disruptive?" Invited paper presented at the Luther Pickerel Agricultural Policy Seminar,
Plymouth, Minnesota, November, 1989.
"Biotechnology: Confronting the Social and Ethical Issues." Invited paper presented at the
Minnesota Crops and Soils Planning Conference, St. Paul, January, 1990.
"Science, Technology, and Agricultural Subsector Development." Invited paper presented at a
Workshop on Subsector Analysis and Microenterprise Development, Gemini Project, USAID,
Washington, DC, November, 1990. Also given at Ohio State University, February, 1991, and
University of Arizona, April, 1991.
"Science and Technology as Social and Environmental Concerns." Invited paper presented at the
annual meetings of the North Central Council of Administrative Heads of Agriculture, Kansas
City, Missouri, November, 1990.
"How Research Shapes Agriculture and the Potential of the NRI." Invited paper presented at a
public meeting, The National Research Initiative: Shaping the Future of Agriculture, Columbus,
Nebraska, March, 1991.
"Agricultural Technology: Ethical Aspects of Technological Development and Use." Invited
paper presented at a symposium on Who Gets What? Ethical Issues in Funding Technological
Research, University of Alabama at Huntsville and Alabama Humanities Foundation, Huntsville,
April, 1991.
"Tending the Garden: Making Nature Together Responsibly." Invited paper presented at the
Hawkesbury College of Agriculture Centennial, Richmond, Australia, October, 1991.
"Prometheus Critiqued: Institutions, Policies, and Technoscience." Invited paper presented at the
East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, October, 1991.
"The Debates in Biotechnology for the Next Decade." Invited paper presented to the New World
Agriculture Group Regional Meeting, Kellogg Biological Station, November, 1991.
"Tentative Titles: The Implosion of Antinomies in Contemporary Society," Invited paper
presented at a special session of the Rural Sociological Society, August, 1991.
"What About Nature? Biotechnology and Crop Diversity." Invited paper presented at the
University of Michigan, March, 1992.

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"Democratic Governance of Biotechnology." Invited paper presented at the winter meeting of the
Northern Tier Land Grant Accountability Project, St. Cloud, MN, March, 1992.
"The Role of Science and Technology in Agriculture: The Case of Biotechnology." Invited paper
presented at the Fifth European Rural Sociology Summer School, Centre for Rural Research,
University of Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway, June, 1992.
"Agricultural Research in a Time of Change." Invited paper presented at the Agricultural
Research Institute's International Conference of Agricultural Administrators, McLean, Virginia,
September, 1992.
"Hungry for Biotechnology or Biotechnology for the Hungry: Can Molecular Biology Help the
Third World?" Invited paper presented to the Department of Science and Technology Studies,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, October, 1992.
"New Industry-University Relationships and the Public Good." Invited paper presented at the
annual meetings of the American Society of Agronomy, Minneapolis, November, 1992.
"Plants, Power, and Profit." Invited paper presented as part of the Biotechnology in Society
Lecture Series, University of California at San Francisco, February, 1993.
"Agricultural Science for Whom? The Case of Canola." Invited paper presented at a conference
on Farm Communities at the Crossroads: Resistance and Renewal, University of Regina, Regina,
Saskatchewan, Canada, February, 1994.
"Macdonalds Not So Happy 'Happy Meal'." Invited paper presented at Northwest State
Community College, Archbold, Ohio, February, 1995.
"How should Genetic Engineering be Prioritized and Funded to Maximize the Benefit to
Society?" Invited Paper presented at a Forum on Biotechnology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio,
May, 1995.
"The Moral Economy of Grades and Standards." Invited paper presented at a conference on
Agrarian Questions, Wageningen, Netherlands, May, 1995.
"Biotechnology and Agricultural Productivity: Changing the Rules of the Game?" Invited paper
presented at an International Conference on Agricultural Productivity and Economic
Development, Trondheim, Norway, June, 1995.
"Agricultural Standards and Biotechnology: What Relevance to Nutrition?" Invited paper
presented at the Nordic School of Nutrition, Oslo, Norway, June, 1995.
"Civic Culture, Networks and Development." Invited paper presented at a conference on Civic
Culture and Social Economy, Öestersund, Sweden, Mid-Sweden University, April, 1996.

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"What can we learn from the introduction of Soybeans and Canola?" Invited paper presented at
the annual meetings of the American Society of Agronomy, St. Louis, October, 1995.
"Revolutionizing Higher Education in Agriculture: A Review." Invited paper presented at the
annual meetings of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society, St. Louis, June, 1996.
"The Development of Moral Responsibility and the Moral Responsibility of Development."
Invited paper presented to the Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University, New Haven,
September, 1996.
"Grades and Standards in the Social Construction of Safe Food." Invited paper presented at a
conference on the Social Construction of Safe Food, Trondheim, Norway, 1997.
"Global Agriculture." Invited paper presented at the Missouri Governor's Conference on
Agriculture, Osage Beach, Missouri, December, 1997.
"Globalizing the Agrifood System: Greater Food Security or Recipe for Disaster?" Bultena
Lectureship on Rural Life, presented at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, March, 1998.
"Paradoxes of Innovation: Standards and Technical Change in the Transformation of the US
Soybean Industry." Invited paper presented at a Workshop on Systems and Trajectories of
Agricultural Innovation, Berkeley, California, April, 1998.
"Standards and Appellations." Invited paper presented at the Salone del Gusto, Turin, Italy,
October, 1998.
“Making the Case for the Social and Human Sciences: A Grantee’s View.” Invited paper
presented at a workshop on Mobilizing the Social and Human Sciences, CSREES, USDA,
Washington, May, 1999.
“US-EU Cultural Differences.” Invited paper presented at a conference on US-EU Policy Issues
in Animal Production, Columbia, Missouri, May, 2000.
“The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State, and Market.” Invited keynote address to the Illinois
Sociological Association, Joliet, Illinois, October, 2000.
“The Changing Ground of American Policy Initiatives.” Invited paper presented at the Hastings
Center, Garrison, New York, November, 2000.
“Collaboration to Strengthen Grades and Standards.” Invited paper presented at the Agriculture,
Environment, Private Sector and Food for Peace Officers’ Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya,
November, 2000.

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“Biotechnology, the WTO, and the Public Good,” Invited paper presented at Uruguay and
Beyond: The WTO, Agriculture, and the Law, Detroit College of Law, MSU, February, 2001.
“Standards, WTO, and the Agrifood Sector,” Invited paper presented to the Center for Advanced
Studies in International Development, April, 2001.
“Biotechnology, Standards, and Development.” Invited paper presented at conference on
Biotechnology and Global Governance, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, May, 2001.
“Biotechnology, Development, and Standardization,” Invited paper presented at the CERES
Summerschool Programme, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, July, 2001.
“Terrorism and Global Development: Related Topics?” Invited paper presented at the
inauguration of the Polson Institute for Global Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York, September 2001.
‘The Future of Food Safety.” Invited paper presented to CIES, the international association of
supermarkets, Geneva, Switzerland, September, 2001.
“Virgil, Vigilence, and Voice: Biotechnology, Standards, and Agriculture.” Invited paper
presented at the annual meetings of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics,
Florence, Italy, October, 2001.
“Implications of the Change of Epoch for Science and Technology in Society and Agriculture.”
Invited paper presented at the Regional Workshop, Towards a New Institutional Coherence for
Guiding Rural R&D Efforts in Latin America, Heredia, Costa Rica, October, 2001.
“Impacts of Biotechnology: A Research Agenda,” Invited paper presented at the University of
California, Riverside, October, 2001.
“Terrorism and Global Development,” Invited paper presented at Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York, November, 2001.
“Retail Markets and the Growing Importance of Private Standards,” Invited paper presented at
the USAID training workshop, Washington, DC, December, 2001 (with T. Reardon).
“Coming Soon to a Supermarket Near You: The New Global Politics of Food and Agriculture.”
Invited paper presented at the University of Illinois at Chicago, January, 2002.
“What we can and must do About Terrorism.” Invited paper presented at the University of
Illinois at Chicago, January, 2002.
“New! Improved? The WTO, Standards and the Emerging Global Food System,” Invited paper
presented to the Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, April, 2002.

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“Living in a Democracy,” Invited address presented at the commencement of the Social Science
College, Michigan State University, April, 2002.
“Agribusiness and Market Linkages.” Invited paper presented at conference on Targeting
Agricultural Research for Development in the Semi-Arid Tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa,
ICRISAT Nairobi Center, July, 2002.
“The World Trade Organization, Standards, and the Emerging Global Food System.” Invited
paper presented to the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management,
University of California, Berkeley and the Department of Human and Community Development,
University of California, Davis, October, 2002.
“Preliminary Findings from the Berkeley-Novartis Case” Invited paper presented at a conference
on University-Industry Relationships and the Public Good: Framing the Issues in Agricultural
Biotechnology, Research Triangle Park, NC, November, 2002.
“The Politics of GM Food.” Invited paper presented at the University of Toronto, January, 2003.
“The New Private Governance of Food Safety.” Invited paper presented at the annual meetings
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Denver, February, 2003.
“Supermarkets and Standards.” Invited panel member at the annual meetings of the Association
of American Geographers, New Orleans, March, 2003.
“Thought for Food: How Global Markets and International Standards are Changing the Food
System.” Howard Beers Lecture in Sociology, presented at the University of Kentucky, March,
2003.
“Commentator,” Conference on Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and Protection of Traditional
Knowledge, Washington University School of Law, April, 2003.
“Building Markets, Making Interests: The Creation of the Gene Industry.” Invited paper
presented at a conference on Genetically Modified Food: The American Experience,
Copenhagen, June, 2003.
“The Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Retail Food Industry,” Invited paper
presented at a Conference on The New Sustainability: Corporate or Consumer Social
Responsiblity, Wageningen, Netherlands, March 10, 2004, with Carmen Bain.
“Market Driven Implications,” Invited paper presented at a conference on Agricultural
Environmental Management Systems, Washington, March 3-4, 2004.

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“Trade, Food Security, and Standards.” Invited paper presented at a conference on Sovereignty
and Security: New Conceptualizations for Post-9/11 North American Relations in the XXI
Century, East Lansing, April 2004.
“A Sociology of Fear.” Invited paper presented at the University of the Aegean, Mytilini,
Greece, May, 2004.
“The Changing Food System: From Markets to Networks,” Plenary Paper presented at the XI
World Congress of Rural Sociology, Trondheim, Norway, July, 2004.
“From Markets to Networks: Supermarkets and the Emerging Global Agrifood System,”
Invited paper presented at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark,
October 19, 2004.
“The Technics of Governance: Thinking About the New (Socio)economics of Agrifood
Standards,” Invited paper presented at the University of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, November 1,
2004.
“Gee! The Gnome in Genome,” Keynote Address to the Genome Canada GE3
LS conference,
Toronto, March, 2005.
“Circus Maximus? The World Trade Organization, the Private Sector, and Genetically Modified
Crops,” Invited paper presented at Workshop and Conference on Genetically Modified
Organisms, the World Trade Organization, and the Future of the World Agricultural Economy,
Madison, Wisconsin, April 15, 2005.
“Contes Rendus: Pourquoi les contes comptent dans l’histoire des OGM,” Invited paper
presented to the Ethics Committee of CIRAD, Paris, June 7, 2005.
“The Emerging Agrifood System: Challenges and Opportunities for Smallholders,” Invited
paper presented at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, June 20,
2005. http://www.ifpri.org/themes/Gov/govevents.asp
“Can Plant Biotechnology Become a Truly Social Science?” Invited paper presented at the US-
EC Taskforce on Biotechnology Research, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, June
22, 2005.
“Biotechnology Standards: Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Development,” Invited paper
presented at a conference on Ag Biotech and Midwest Rural Development, Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL, September 8, 2005.
“Mainstream v. Alternative Marketing Chains,” Invited paper presented at PhD course on
organic food and farming, Skanderborg, Denmark, October 3-7, 2005.

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“Performing the Economy, Performing Science: How Third Party Certification is Transforming
the Food Sector,” Invited paper presented to the departments of Science and Technology Studies
and Development Sociology, Cornell University, November, 2005.
“Emerging Agrifood Standards: Challenges and Opportunities,” Invited paper presented at
Symposium on Risk Analysis of Agro-Product Safety, Chinese Academy of Agricultural
Sciences, Beijing, China; and International Advanced Symposium on Agro-Product Safety Risk
Assessment and Testing Techniques, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou,
China, April 2006.
“Risk Analysis: Issues, Limits, and Complexities,” Invited paper presented at Symposium on
Risk Analysis of Agro-Product Safety, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing,
China; Jiajiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China; International Advanced
Symposium on Agro-Product Safety Risk Assessment and Testing Techniques, Zhejiang
Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China; and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou,
China, April, 2006.
“ La certification par tierce partie dans la mise en œuvre des normes,” Invited paper presented at
Gouverner par les Normes: Dispositifs de Normalisation dans la Régulation des Marchés et des
Activités Economiques. Montpellier, France, June, 2006.
“Standards: How Anonymous Power Shapes Our World,” Invited paper presented at the Buffet
Pensant, Wageningen University, Netherlands, October, 2006.
“The Changing Governance of Food,” Invited paper presented at the Graduate School of the
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, November 2006.
“Standards: Some Thoughts on a Neglected Topic for Social Research,” Invited paper presented
to the Department of Sociology at Peking University, November 2006.
“Standards: A Social Science Perspective.” Invited paper presented at the National Institute of
Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, February, 2007.
“Our Daily Bread (Fortified with Iron and Calcium): What STS can tell us about the
transformation of food and agriculture.” Invited plenary paper presented at a workshop on The
Social and Material Practices of Agriculture, Farming and Food Production, Lancaster, UK, June
2007.
“Measuring Up: How Standards Shape Our Lives.” Invited paper presented at the ESRC
Genomics and Policy Forum, Edinburgh, May, 2007.
“From Pareto Optimality to Corporate Social Responsibility: How Supply Chain Management Is
Changing Our Notion of Social Welfare.” Invited paper presented to the Marketing and
Consumer Behavior Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, June 2007.

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“The Culture of Science.” Invited paper presented at the Cooperative States Research,
Education, and Extension Service Social Science Academy, Washington, DC, January 2008.
“The Private Governance of Food: Equitable Exchange or Bizarre Bazaar?” Invited paper
presented a symposium on the Private Governance in the Global Agro-Food System, Münster,
Germany, April 2008.
Invited discussant at a symposium on Les Mondes Agricoles en Politique, Association Française
de Science Politique, Paris, France, May 2008.
“Performing the Economy: How Supply Chain Management is Transforming the Food Sector.”
Invited paper presented at a workshop on Socioeconomics, Markets and Space: Performing
Markets, Schloss Hirschberg, October 2008.
“What Kind of Agriculture do We Want? What Might Science Deliver?” Invited paper
presented at a symposium on Sciences en Société: Dialogues et Responsabilité Scientifique,
Paris, November 2008.
“What Can We Learn from the Regulation of Transgenic Crops?” Invited paper presented at a
Seminario y Diálogo Público: Cultivos Transgénicos en Chile: Qué queremos como país?,
Santiago, Chile, January 2009.
“Transgenic Crops, Transparency, Translations: Crop biotechnologies and the global south.”
Invited paper presented at Santa Clara University, February 2009.
“The Politics of Animal Welfare Policies.” Invited Paper presented at a conference on Knowing
Animals, Florence, Italy, March 2009.
“Recipes for Reality: How Standards Shape Our Lives.” Invited paper presented at the
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, April 2009.
“Science in Society: A Troubled Relationship.” Invited paper presented to the European Science
Foundation workshop on Roadmapping Science in Society, Paris, June 2009.
“Nanotechnologies, Food and Agriculture: Through the Lens of Standards.” Invited paper
presented to the Committee on Nanotechnology (NTI/1) British Standards Institution, London,
July 2009.
“Science in Society: Restructuring the Relationship.” Invited paper presented to Youth in
Science and Society Issues [a pan-European youth group], Le Cheylard, France, August 2009.
“How Third Party Certification is Transforming the Food Sector.” Invited paper presented at
INRA/University of Toulouse, January 2010.

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“Food Safety: The Entanglement of Standards, Laws, Fears, and Risks.” Invited paper presented
at the University of Sheffield, February 2010.
“Standards: The Boring Stuff that Shapes Virtually Everything We Do.” Invited presentation at a
Café Scientifique, Headingley, United Kingdom, March 2010.
“Food Standards: The Centre of a Wicked Problem.” Invited presentation at a symposium on
Food Security, Beijing, China, March 2010.
“Standards: Living in a Certified Society.” Invited paper presented at the Ideas Festival,
Lancaster University, United Kingdom, April, 2010.
“Acting Sustainably: Governance Through Standards In A Time Of ‘Corporate Science’.”
Invited keynote presentation at Innovation and Sustainable Development in Agriculture and
Food, Montpellier, France, June 2010.
“Food Standards: The Cacophony of Governance.” Invited paper presented at a symposium on
food security, sponsored by the Society for Experimental Biology, Lancaster, UK, September,
2010.
“Quasi-States? The Unexpected Rise of Private Food Law.” Invited keynote presentation at the
annual Congress of the European Food Law Association, Amsterdam, September, 2010.
“Inadequacy of the Contemporary Approach to Science.” Invited presentation to the Sustainable
Michigan Educational Project Academy, East Lansing, October, 2010.
“Ubiquitous Monitoring and Risk: What are the Implications for Public Health and
Sustainability?” Panel member at Risk, Uncertainty, and Sustainable Innovation symposium,
Ann Arbor, September 2011.
“Why Risk Analysis is not Enough.” Invited paper presented at The new 2,4-D and dicamba
tolerant crops: Managing risk to farmers and communities. Columbus, October 2011.
“Lost in Translation: Problems of Large Scale Data Sets.” Invited paper presented at a special
session of the Society for Social Studies of Science on the Intellectual Legacies of Susan Leigh
Star, November 2011.
“Standards: Toward a New Multidiscipline.” Invited paper presented at the SUBSTANce
Seminar, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2012.
“Governance in the Age of Global Markets: Challenges, Limits, and Consequences.” Invited
paper presented at Defining and Governing Sustainable Agriculture through Multi-Stakeholder
Initiatives and Roundtables: Participation, knowledge and networks in action, Montpellier,
France, December 2012.

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“Prendre la durabilité au sérieux : le rôle des institutions scientifiques.” Invited paper presented
at Séminaire INRA-SenS, University of Paris – East, Paris, France, December 2012.
“Land Grant Universities: Market Good or Civic Good? Invited paper presented at the Provost’s
Forums on the Public University and the Social Good, University of California Davis, Davis,
CA, February 2013
“The Data Deluge: How Large Scale Data Sets Can Guide and Misguide Us.” Invited paper
presented at the Center for Science Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ,
February 2013.
“Standards and Their Problems: From Technical Specifications to World-Making.” Invited paper
presented at the Center for Science Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ,
March 2013.
“Examining the Food Chain.” Invited paper presented at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
lecture series, Ann Arbor, MI, April 2013.
“Standard Deviation? How Neoliberal Standards have Transformed Research.” Plenary paper at
a conference on the Changing Political Economy of Research and Innovation, Toronto,
December 2013
“Some Thoughts on Standards and Innovations.” Invited brief presented at an international
workshop on Standardization as space(s) for innovation, Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation
Société, Champs-sur-Marne, France, December 2013.
“Questioning Technology.” Invited presentation at the Sharper Focus/ Wider Lens series, Honors
College, Michigan State University, East Lansing, February 2014.
“Le Monde Caché des Normes: Comment des norms peuvent limiter ou advancer la durabilité.”
Invited paper presented at Montpellier SupAgro, February 2014.
“Le Pouvoir des Standards : Comment on transforme l’agriculture par des norms invisibles.”
Invited paper presented to the Académie d’Agriculture, Paris, March 2014.
“Looking in the Wrong (La)place? The Promise and Perils of Becoming Data.” Invited paper
presented at a seminar on ‘L’exercice du pouvoir dans le gouvernement mondial par les
standards,’ Montpellier, CIRAD, April 2014.
“What Good is Higher Education? How Neoliberalism Constrains Teaching, Research and
Outreach.” Invited plenary paper, Neoliberalism and Public Higher Education, East Lansing, MI,
March 2015.
“Real Myths = False Truths: Securing America’s Future.” Invited paper presented to the Retired
Faculty Association, December 2015.

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XV. SELECTED PRESENTED PAPERS
"Rural Industrialization and Labor Force Participation." Paper presented at the meetings of the
Rural Sociological Society, San Francisco, 1978 (with Carol Straus).
"A Sociological and Functional Profile of Agricultural Scientists." Paper presented at meetings
of the Northeastern Regional Experiment Station Directors Association, New Brunswick, New
Jersey, 1980.
"Decision Influences on Agricultural Scientists." Paper presented at meetings of the Experiment
Station Committee on Organization and Policy, Lexington, Kentucky, 1980.
"Research Policy and Process: A Look at Horticulture." Presentation to Department of
Horticulture, Lexington, Kentucky, March, 1981 (with W. B. Lacy).
"How Scientists Work: Problem Choice in the Agricultural Sciences." Farming Systems
Research Seminar Series, Kansas State University, Manhattan, October, 1981.
"The Organizational Context of United States Agricultural Research." Paper presented at the
Rural Sociological Society meetings, San Francisco, 1982.
"U.S. Public Agricultural Research." Slide presentation given (1983-1986) at North Carolina
State University, Raleigh; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; University of Florida,
Gainesville; Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy, Washington, D.C.;
Office of Agriculture, USAID, Washington, D.C.; International Agricultural Development
Service, Washington, D.C.; Interreligious Task Force on U.S. Food Policy, Washington, D.C.;
Cooperative State Research Service, USDA, Washington, D.C.; Economic Research Service,
USDA, Washington, D.C.; University of Minnesota, St. Paul; National Industry State
Agricultural Research Council, Washington, D.C.; North Central Agricultural Economics
Administrators, Chicago, Illinois (with W. B. Lacy).
"Public Agricultural Research in the United States." Paper presented at annual meetings of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Detroit, Michigan, 1983 (with W. B.
Lacy).
"U.S. Agricultural Research: Implications for the Third World." Third World Development
Seminar Series, Lexington, Kentucky, September, 1983, (with W. B. Lacy).
"The Impact of Biotechnology on Public Agricultural Research: The Case of Plant Breeding."
Paper presented at the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
New York, June, 1984 (with M. Hansen, J. Burkhardt, and W. B. Lacy).

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"The Impact of Public Agricultural R&D on Concentration in Farming." Paper presented at the
meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, College Station, Texas, 1984 (with J. L. Silver, W.
B. Lacy, C. S. Perry, M. Lancelle, and S. Deo).
"The Social and Scientific Consequences of the New Plant Biotechnologies." Paper presented at
the meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, College Station, Texas, l984 (with M. Hansen, J.
Burkhardt, and W. B. Lacy).
"How are Markets Possible?" Paper presented at annual meetings of the Rural Sociological
Society, Blacksburg, Virginia, l985.
"Biotechnology and Agricultural Science." Paper presented at the meetings of the Society for
Social Studies of Science, Pittsburgh, October, 1985 (with W. B. Lacy).
"Methods for Investigating Agricultural Research." Paper presented at the meetings of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Philadelphia, May, 1986.
"Biotechnology in Agriculture: Its Impact on Food and Nutrition." Paper presented to the
Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, October, 1986.
"Our Daily Bread: The New Biotechnology and the Wheat Industry." Paper presented at the
annual meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Madison, Wisconsin, August, 1987.
"The Politics of Genetic Diversity." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for
Social Studies of Science, Worcester, Massachusetts, November, 1987 (with W. B. Lacy and J.
Moraga-Rojel).
"Instruments and Values in Science." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for
Social Studies of Science, Worcester, Massachusetts, November, 1987 (with P. Marcotte).
"The International Transfer of Scientific Institutions: The `American Model' in Indian
Agricultural Science Institutions." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for
Social Studies of Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November, 1988.
"Remembrance of Things Past (and Future): Plant Germplasm Conservation in France." Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Seattle, Washington, August,
1989.
"Agricultural Commodities: The Complex Path from Production to Consumption." Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the Association for the Study of Food and Society,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June, 1990.
"Manufacturing Plants: Notes on the Nature of Culture and the Culture of Nature." Paper
presented at the XII World Congress of Sociology, Madrid, Spain, July, 1990.

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"Making Agricultural Commodities." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Rural
Sociological Society, Norfolk, Virginia, August, 1990.
"Germplasm Conservation in Four Nations." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the
Society for Social Studies of Science, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November, 1990.
"What Kind of Nature Do We Want?" Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Agriculture,
Food, and Human Values Society, Asilomar Conference Center, California, May, 1991.
"The State of Agricultural Science and the Agricultural Science of the State." Paper presented at
a conference on the Globalization of the Agriculture and Food Order, Columbia, Missouri, June,
1991.
"Laws of Nature: The Paradox of Verietal Improvement." Paper presented at the annual meetings
of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, Evanston,
July, 1991.
"Germplasm Conservation in Four Nations: Brazil, Chile, France, and the United States," paper
presented at the annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Chicago, February, 1992 (with W.B. Lacy and J. Burkhardt).
"Socializing Nature: Technoscience and the Transformation of Rapeseed into Canola." Paper
presented at the Eighth World Congress of Rural Sociology, State College, PA, August, 1992.
"From Technical Assistance to Cooperation: A Comparision of French and American
Agricultural Science Policies for the Third World." Paper presented at the annual meetings of the
American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, PA, August, 1992.
"Understanding the Cinderella Story: Science and the Transformation of Rapeseed into Canola."
Paper presented at the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Sasketchewan,
January, 1993.
"If Plants Were Microbes and People Were Ducks: Problematic Metaphors in the Life Sciences."
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Society for the History, Philosophy
and Social Studies of Biology, Boston, MA, July, 1993.
"Research on the Globalization of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Commodities: Canola." Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Orlando, FL, August, 1993.
"The Social Construction of Worldwide Research on Rapeseed/Canola." Paper presented at the
annual meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Orlando, FL, August, 1993 (with Arunas
Juska).

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